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Old 24-10-2008, 01:16 AM
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Originally Posted by §AB View Post
Yeah 4.5" scopes do an admirable job from dark skies, the one time I had mine out in the sticks I got a fantastic view of the Flame Nebula and other objects that I had no hope of seeing from melbourne.
I had a memorable evening about 2 years ago with my little 130mm newt in dark skies with the best transparency I have seen. The flame neb stood out like the proverbial dogs bollocks with dark lane resolved in the 30mm finder scope
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